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Data · collection · 2003

A new species of Xenomyia Malloch, 1921 (Diptera: Muscidae) from South Africa, a probable natural antagonist of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae)

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This dataset contains the digitized treatments in Plazi based on the original journal article Pont, Adrian C., Werner, Doreen (2003): A new species of Xenomyia Malloch, 1921 (Diptera: Muscidae) from South Africa, a probable natural antagonist of blackflies (Diptera: Simuliidae).

Description

African Invertebrates 44 (2): 147, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7666378 ABSTRACT A new species of the genus Xenomyia Malloch, Xenomyia osculata, is described from the Orange River, Northern Cape, South Africa.

It was collected in association with the blackfly Simulium chutteri Lewis, 1965, upon which it probably preys in the adult and larval stages. This description includes the first published illustrations of the aedeagus and ovipositor of a species of Xenomyia.

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